“Everyone must be a trim tab.”

Bucky would be so disappointed to know that humanity still does not grasp that it truly is endangered. That this 150 million year experiment called humanity could have been just one more of nature’s mistakes, and the answer is coming soon!

Buckminster Fuller and other mid century American futurists and scientists tried to convince the world, starting in 1965, that there was an abundance of readily harvestable energies tappable on Earth, such as geothermal and magnetic energies, which could free us from our enslavement to fossil fuels. Making it happen would only require subtle shifts in public policies.

People thought he was crazy. Bucky spoke of trim tabs, and how even a small leverage point, applied correctly, is all that is necessary to turn around the great ocean liner that is our world.

Bucky called on every individual to be a “trim tab”, to help make the necessary change happen.

To me this means that we must immediately demand that our governments invest whatever resources are necessary to support the highest and best technology for solving our climate problems.

Remember all the environmental furor of the 1980’s? Didn’t you think it would last forever? I did. But looking back, it seems that once we stopped the rivers from catching fire, we got into a bizarre institutionalized denial of what was going on environmentally. And still today, even though 99% of all environmental scientists agreed that there are serious, verifiable climate changes clearly affected by mankind’s activities, we pay no attention..

Nature does wants us to succeed, Bucky said. He believed that all humanity can reap the full harvest of an abundant, healthy Earth, simply by trying.

And we could start by working hard to consume less of everything. Drive less. Use less. The better for us all.

“More Mind. Less Matter.” said Bucky.

“You can make money or sense. The two are mutually exclusive.”

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Author: Patricia Ravasio

Author, activist, mother of three. My passion is to bring Buckminster Fuller's ideas and visions back into the world: "To make the world work for 100% of humanity, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological harm or disadvantage to anyone."
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